QuoteReplyTopic: Member Discussion of THE INTERNSHIP Posted: June 05 2013 at 6:30am

WHETHER THIS FILM GETS SCATHING REVIEWS or NOT (and IT LOOKS HEADED for MIDDLING R.T. NUMBERS AT BEST) IS KIND of BESIDE the POINT. THE INTERNSHIP IS the FIRST FILM of ITS CALIBER to TRY and PALM OFF WHAT SHOULD RIGHTLY BE LABELED a FEATURE-LENGTH 'INFO-MERCIAL" as an ACTUAL FILM.

APPARENTLY CONCEIVED and DEVELOPED by CO-STARS VINCE VAUGHN and OWEN WILSON, INTERNSHIP WAS MADE with the FULL COOPERATION (READ: CORPORATE INPUT and OVERSIGHT) of MEGA-MEDIA-GIANT GOOGLE: CORPORATE 'SUITS' HAD ADVANCE ACCESS to the SCRIPT, HAD SOME DEGREE of VETO POWER OVER ANYTHING THEY FOUND 'OBJECTIONABLE,' and GLADLY 'LENT' THEIR COMPANY 'CAMPUS' for EXTENSIVE ON-SITE FILMING.

THE NOTION of VESTED INTERESTS MEDDLING in MOVIE-MAKING to the DEGREE THAT HAS HAPPENED HERE SHOULD SEND SHIVERS DOWN the SPINE of ANYONE WHO CARES ABOUT ART EXISTING SEPARATELY from COMMERCE.

SPEAKING for MYSELF, I HONESTLY DON'T CARE IF a MOVIE IS FUNNY or NOT IF ITs MAIN REASON for EXISTENCE IS to SUBLIMINALLY 'SELL' ME SOMETHING. ON THAT BASIS ALONE, NO MATTER WHAT REVIEWS or GROSSES SUGGEST, THIS FILM's MOTIVES ARE TAINTED to the POINT WHERE I REFUSE to SPEND MY MONEY to SEE or SUPPORT IT.

ALL WHO DISAGREE with MY THESIS ARE WELCOME to POST THEIR OPPOSING OPINIONS BELOW -- AS, OF COURSE, ARE THOSE WHO AGREE.

IT MAY SEEM a TAD HYSTERICAL, BUT HISTORICALLY, THIS FILMS SEEMS LIKE a TURNING POINT to ME: ARE WE, AS PAYING MOVIE-GOERS, GOING to EMBRACE the IDEA of ADS BEING WOVEN INTO OUR ENTERTAINMENT and COW to 'CORPORATE OVERLORDS'...OR ARE WE GOING to STAND UP and SAY 'f**k YOU!' to THOSE WHO WOULD TAKE US DOWN THAT PATH??

HERE's the LINK for OUR FORUM INFO PAGE on THIS FILM (INCLUDING a LINK to SEE R.T. NUMBERS ON IT)...

...and, JUST to SHOW THAT MY ANTI-CORPORATE/60s FLASHBACK RANT ABOVE IS NOT ENTIRELY DELUSIONAL, HERE's the LINK to READ an L.A. TIMES ARTICLE ABOUT the 'SYNERGY' BETWEEN THIS FILM's MAKERS and the GAGGLE of GOOGLE EXECUTIVES WHO 'WORKED' on IT...

I WILL NOW STEP DOWN from MY SOAP-BOX and HAND OVER the 'KEYS to the GOOGLE CAMPUS' to YOU, OUR LOYAL FORUM POSTERS...

This film looks like another vanity project (a lot of that going around apparently) by Google. Does Google even need a movie to promote itself? Countless millions of people on the internet use Google every day. Many people don't even bother to use any other Search engine, like ASK.com or Bing.

As for the film itself, it looks like another "Wedding Crashers" replica, with Vince Vaughan and Owen Wilson teaming up again. Note to studios: It They wasn't the actors whe were funny, the movie "Wedding Crashers" was.

I do hope audiences won't get suckered into the nonsense and egotism of this film.

I always try to use Bing instead. Google's search system really annoys me (and so does Google Chrome). Maybe the people at Google feel threatened by other search systems and that's why they'd feel the need to lend their name to a movie in this form. I don't wanna pay to watch this movie either.

It seems that Wilson and Vaughn are desperate to do another WEDDING CRASHERS. I can't really blame them, because they haven't had a hit since then (MIDNIGHT IN PARIS doesn't count because it's not a full-on comedy).

R.T. (30-35%): "Vaughn and Wilson make an undeniably charming pair, but the film weighs down their comic charisma with a formulaic script and padded running time that lean far too heavily on its stars' easygoing interplay".

Leopoldo Muńoz (3/7): "Despite all its flaws, Shawn Levy creates a sort of charm that blends well the humour with the emotions, which helps us to connect with the lead characters".

Antonio Martínez (2/5): "A real comedy would laugh at Google and its culture by exposing its flaws. That's the nature of the genre: mistrust and anarchy. In this movie, comedy is a disguise. There are jokes here and there, but the true purposes are clear: Strategic communication, corporate image, and, public relations".

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